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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

  • -- Thomas Hobbes 托马斯·霍布斯

我提出了全人类的普遍倾向，一种对权力的永无休止的欲望，这种欲望只有在死亡时才会停止。

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I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

我认为人类的心灵无法理解过去和未来。它们都只是一种幻觉，可以操纵你，让你认为会发生某种变化。

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

对拥有的欲望是永不满足的，以至于它可以生存，甚至爱本身。因此，爱，就是让所爱的人绝育。

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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.

你知道，圣奥古斯丁说过，我们的心永远不会平静，直到它们在你心中安息。我心里感到不安。有些事就是不太对劲。

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The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

世界永远是对自己的讽刺;每时每刻，它都是对它所假装的东西的嘲弄和矛盾。

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

对知识的渴望就像对财富的渴望一样，随着知识的获得而与日俱增。

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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

如果我们不为人类服务，我们应该为谁服务呢?

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There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

衣橱里有一种东西会让骷髅不安。

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What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

如果一个永久的结合变得更加完美，而不是不可分割，那么还有什么是不可分割的呢?

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